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NFL giving free Super Bowl tickets to 7,500 health workers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The NFL announced Friday that 7,500 health care workers vaccinated for the coronavirus will be given free tickets to next month’s Super Bowl to be played in Tampa, Flo...

DATE: Jan 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Unique guitar-shaped hotel opens at Florida Seminole casino

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – It looks like a rock ‘n’ roll guitar that Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page would have played. But this one is 450 feet tall and is a light-beam hotel that the Seminole Tribe wants...

DATE: Dec 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Janet Reno, former U.S. attorney general, dies

MIAMI – Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and was also the epicenter of a relentless series of political ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies in Florida

MIAMI – Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life...

DATE: Feb 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Steroids chemist headed to prison for 18 months

Brazilian also faces deportation

DATE: Feb 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Miami judge approves early start to Florida’s gay weddings

MIAMI – A judge ruled Monday that same-sex couples can immediately start getting marriage licenses in Miami-Dade County, getting a jump-start on Florida’s entry as the 36th state where gay m...

DATE: Jan 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Terror plotter Padilla gets new 21-year sentence

A jury found the Brooklyn-born Padilla guilty in 2007 on charges of supporting al-Qaida and terrorism conspiracy, which carried a possible life sentence. Evidence showed he attended an al-Qa...

DATE: Sep 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Appeals court hears arguments in cellphone-tracking case

MIAMI – A federal appeals court in South Florida is considering whether investigators are required to get a warrant before obtaining cellphone records detailing a suspect’s movements. ...

DATE: Apr 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fla. artist smashes $1M vase in Miami museum

MIAMI – A South Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million vase at Miami’s new art museum in what appears to be a form of protest. Maximo ...

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

FAA: Florida pilot says passenger fell into ocean

MIAMI – Rescue crews searched an area southeast of Miami after a pilot reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that a passenger fell out of his small plane into the ocean Thursday. ...

DATE: Nov 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hijacker returns to U.S. after 30 years in Cuba

FBI agents took William Potts, 56, into custody shortly after his charter flight from Havana landed at Miami International Airport, said FBI spokesman Mike Leverock. Potts faces a 1985 feder...

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Stand your ground’ to stay?

Outcries abound, but repeals are unlikely

DATE: Jul 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World